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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 11h

#31DaysOfGraves day 14 inside St David’s Manordeifi Pembrokeshire Wales. I don’t remember who the tablet on the west wall commemorates but the one on the wall on its right is for Captain Charles Colby who was killed by a tiger - see commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mo...

Nave of a church with Georgian box pews and white walls. White memorial tablet on black mount on west wall. Arch to porch and open exterior door.

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St Magnus Cathedral, Orkney @stmagnuscathedral.bsky.social · 1d

Squeezing this in before the end of the day! #31DaysofGraves - Day 13, Skeleton. Of course, it had to be this cheery and dynamic fellow from the gravestone of Kirkwall merchant Patrick Prince.

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The Orkney News @theorkneynews.bsky.social · 17h

@rnshiplosses.bsky.social
HMS Royal Oak : 14.10.1939 theorkneynews.scot/2025/10/14/h...

HMS Royal Oak : 14.10.1939

“The Navy has suffered a great loss of life in these first two months of war than all the other forces, French and British, on Land and Sea combined. ” – First Lord of the Admiral…

theorkneynews.scot

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 1d

Done

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 1d

Will message you.

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 1d

Catching the end of this discussion. Might be worth canvassing a rep or two on the new advisory panel? Have three names if that helps. Has met once.

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 1d

About 84% yes by now

Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 2d

This poll in The Times is still open.

Go to —> compass.pressekompass.net/compasses/ti...

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 2d

#31DaysOfGraves Day 12: Notable Women

Mary Titley, née Atcherley. My 3x great grandmother. Notable for inspiring my #OnePlaceStudy of the #Shropshire parish of Waters Upton! A visit to photograph her gravestone became a visit to photograph most of the other graves, and things escalated from there.

Memorial Inscriptions: Titley

< More Waters Upton Memorial Inscriptions / MIs in the churchyard Waters Upton churchyard MIs: TITLEY In affectionateremembrance ofJOHN TITLEY[Illegible]who died March 4th 1856,aged 60 years.Als…

waters-upton.uk

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 2d

I think he was in contact with us at St John’s Kirk - Walls Heritage and spoke to a good friend who helps maintain the grave. Good to know the book is out now.
Hope you avoid the worst of any bug.

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 2d

Day 12 of #31DaysOfGraves - Notable Woman

An unassuming slab of stone off the Fife coast at Torryburn covers the mortal remains of Lilias Adie, the only known grave of an accused witch in Scotland

Buried beneath the tidal line by superstitious villagers in 1704, her grave was rediscovered in 2014

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 2d

#31DaysOfGraves - 12 Notable woman. The lonely grave of Betty Corrigall on the border of the parishes of Walls and Hoy #Orkney in my #OnePlaceStudy #NorthWallsAndBrims Notable now for the sadness and poignancy of her story Read more here: www.scottish-places.info/features/fea...

A white gravestone (fibreglass actually) surrounded by a white picket fence tiny against a backdrop of brown heather and hills.

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Friends of Warriston Cemetery @fowarristoncem.bsky.social · 2d

I spotted this yesterday, so here's a return to #31DaysOfGraves Day 4: Languages. Xaipe is ancient Greek and can be translated into 'goodbye' or 'farewell', ‘rejoice’ or 'Godspeed' for dangerous missions. Fittingly broad meanings for a tomb’s inscription. #Xaipe #AncientGreek #Edinburgh #Language

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote this on Nathan Gill, Russian bribes, Reform and Farage nearly two weeks ago. Here it is again if you’re sick of the silence of the UK media

www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

It's time we asked some serious questions about Reform and Russia, says Neil Mackay

As a former prominent leader of Reform faces jail for taking bribes to make pro-Russian statements, Neil Mackay says we have to ask serious…

www.heraldscotland.com

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Turnstone Genealogy - Jane Barton @turnstonegenie.bsky.social · 2d

#31DaysOfGraves
Day 12: Notable woman
From a visit to Llanaber Church, Barmouth, Wales in the summer, the grave of Fanny Talbot (1824-1917). A friend of John Ruskin and a generous philanthropist, she is noted for gifting the first property, Dinas Oleu, to the newly formed National Trust in 1895.

The grave monument of Fanny Talbot (1824-1917) - a Celtic style grey stone cross with white lettering on a green plinth, recently renovated - stands in the overgrown burial ground of Llanaber Church, Barmouth, Gwynedd. Wales, with the sea beyond.

Black and white portrait photograph of Fanny Talbot nee Brown (1824-1917). Fanny was a landowner and philanthropist, and a friend and correspondent of John Ruskin. Born in Bridgwater, Somerset, from 1874 she lived in Barmouth, Gwynedd, Wales. She is noted for gifting the first property, Dinas Oleu, to the newly formed National Trust in 1895.

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 3d

Days not day. Been a long day on the Speyside Way.

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 3d

#31DayOfGraves day 11 military.
Pte Tom R Ross MM Croix de Guerre and Star d 1918 Memorial in Bunahoun Cemetery in Strath Halladale, Sutherland.
He was awarded the Military Medal in late 1917 along with a large number of other non-commissioned officers and men
www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue...

Erected by James Ross, Golval, in loving memory of his son Pte Tom R Ross MM Croix de Guerre and Star Royal Highlanders who was killed in action on 19th August 1918 at Neuville Vitasse France aged 22 years
And his beloved wife Elizabeth Walker who died 7th August 1932 aged 73 years Also the above James Ross who died 21st April 1934 aged 82 years
His loving smile and cheerful ways are pleasant to recall
he had a kindly word for each and died beloved by all.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 4d

Fossil hunter, folklorist, evangelist, stonemason, editor, social justice campaigner, & geologist, Hugh Miller (1802–1856) – born #OTD, 10 Oct – should be remembered in the company of Carlyle, Ruskin, Matthew Arnold & JS Mill as one of the leading moral & social thinkers of the #C19th
A 🎂🧵
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Faded 19th-century sepia photograph of Hugh Miller. He is standing, dressed in workman's overalls, his shirt-sleeves rolled up. He has bushy hair and large sideburns, and his left elbow is propped up on a carved gravestone. His right hand rests on a large stonemason's maul, and he holds a chisel in his left hand.

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 4d

#31DaysOfGraves
Day 10 - Urn

A lovely urn with a ribbon on the grave of Susan Brown and her 4 children. The grave even has a footstone with their initials.

Old Burying Ground, Halifax, Nova Scotia

A large gravestone in the Old Burying Ground, Halifax, Nova Scotia. The top of the grave features an urn with a ribbon tied in a bow at the top of the urn. Below that the inscription reads:

Sacred
To the Memory of
Susan Mary
Wife of
Robert M. Brown
Who departed this life 8th July 1841
Aged 37 Years
Also their Children
Thomas W Brown died 7th Dec 1826
Aged 2 Years 1 Month & 21 Days
Joanna Maria Brown died 20th March 1828
Aged 1 Year 8 Months & 23 Days
Elizabeth Mary Brown died 1st Novbr 1831
Aged 1 Year 7 Months

(This part is cut off from this picture but the rest of the inscription reads:
Charles Brown died 28th Sept 1840
Aged 21 Days)

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Lorraine Evans @thedeathhistorian.bsky.social · 4d

Day 10: Urn #31daysofgraves One of my favourite graveside accoutrements, the urn, which comes in many guises, from the classical urn carrier, as shown below in Kirkmichael Burial Ground, Resolis, to the 'plonky on top' additions (a technical term 😉)

#cemetery #grave #death #archaeology #history

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 4d

#31DaysOfGraves day 10 urn. The Learmonth family grave at Osmondwall (Ousna), South Walls #Orkney. They were from the Lyness area in my #OnePlaceStudy #NorthWallsAndBrims but there was no kirkyard there until the later 1910s. (Top cut off due to focus on inscription.🤦🏻)

White painted gravestone with a draped urn on top in a grassy kirkyard with wooden gate and stone wall in the background. Inscription on gravestone reads: Erected in loving memory of Margaret Robertson wife of Henry Learmonth who died 26th March 1914 aged 68 years. Also their children William Henry who died 18th May 1878 aged 7 years, Margaret Jane who died 14th June aged 18 years, and the above Henry Learmonth who died 7th March 1921 aged 78 years.

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 4d

#31DaysOfGraves day 10 - urn. Here’s an urn (or two?) in the background at Kinbrace, #Sutherland I took the photo for the row of Post Office worker photos in the foreground.

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 4d

Was wondering how things were going at Kilmarnock. Shame that a could-be-well-used place seems to have so many issues.

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 5d

I don’t think it’s any advance at all, confusing picture.

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Charles Barr @charlesbarr.bsky.social · 5d

How bad is so called journalism?
Was it as bad back in the day? Or do we only now have the ways of showing up their agenda.

This took me two mins to find out the WM approval rates.

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Turnstone Genealogy - Jane Barton @turnstonegenie.bsky.social · 5d

#31DaysOfGraves
Day 7: Angel
An unmissable opportunity to share the stunningly beautiful angel who watches over the grave of suffragette Henria Helen Leech Williams in #CathcartCemetery. A place of pilgrimage, adorned with the purple, green & white ribbons of the #WSPU. May she rest in peace.

A stone angel, seated atop the grave monument of the Williams family, in the beautiful woodland surrounds of the overgrown Cathcart Cemetery on the south side of Glasgow, Scotland.

A wider view of the imposing grave monument of the Williams family - three large inscribed stone panels with plinths and pediments, above which is a seated angel perhaps three metres tall, the whole structure being perhaps six metres or more in height - surrounded by the lush vegetation of the overgrown Cathcart Cemetery on the south side of Glasgow, Scotland.
A daughter of the family, Henria Helen Leech WIlliams, was a suffragette and an active member of the Women's Social and Political Union. She died on 2 January 1911, two months after the 'Black Friday' demonstration. The grave is adorned with purple, green and white ribbons, the colours of WSPU, and remains a place of pilgrimage and inspiration.

At the foot of the grave monument of suffragette Henria Helen Leech WIlliams, a sign bearing a quotation:
"She knowingly and willingly shortened her days in rendering services to the womanhood of the nation."
There are also ribbons in purple, green and white, the colours of the Women's Social & Politial Union (WSPU).

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